CVE-2017-5026

Status Candidate

Overview

Google Chrome prior to 56.0.2924.76 for Linux, Windows and Mac, failed to prevent alerts from being displayed by swapped out frames, which allowed a remote attacker to show alerts on a page they don't control via a crafted HTML page.

Related Files

Ubuntu Security Notice 3180-1 - Multiple vulnerabilities were discovered in Chromium. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could potentially exploit these to conduct cross-site scripting attacks, read uninitialized memory, obtain sensitive information, spoof the webview URL or other UI components, bypass same origin restrictions or other security restrictions, cause a denial of service via application crash, or execute arbitrary code. Various other issues were also addressed.

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory 201701-66 - Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in the Chromium web browser, the worst of which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code. Versions less than 56.0.2924.76 are affected.